This collection of essays presents a comprehensive overview of current and fresh approaches to the history of medieval Europe.

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades.

This book of eleven essays by an international group of scholars in medieval studies honors the work of Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor emerita of History at Loyola University Chicago.

The book therefore both marks the trajectory of conflict studies in the United States and presents a set of original, highly individual contributions across a shifting conceptual range, indicative of a major transition in the field.

This volume develops and extends the insights of the noted scholar Thomas M. Izbicki into the so-called medieval/modern divide.

This classic text, first published in 1972, makes a useful and interesting general introduction for students of medieval and economic history.

The volume highlights how Jordan�fs work inspired and influenced a generation of medievalists working in North America and Europe today.

Volume 45 also includes one review article and seven review notices that reflect the journal�fs interdisciplinary scope. This volume focuses especially on the reception of Islam in Europe during the Middle Ages and in early modern times.

The essays show medieval historians at work, questioning and reflecting on their practice.

How was medieval Europe held together? People of dissimilar occupations and economic interests, living in widely separate parts of western Europe, came to recognise and act upon a common set of cultural beliefs.